Fates Worse Than Death For Famous People's Bodies

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Dying is probably the last terrible thing that will happen to you, right? As it turns out, when it comes to these famous people, it wasn't. Not by a long shot.

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Allert Einstein's amazing brain... stolen ...was by pathologist Thomas Harvey. Harvey kept it cut up and preserved in jars in his basement until his w

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Eva Peron's open silver casket... ...was kept on display on her husband's dining room table. He later moved her to the attic, where he built a shrine

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John Barrymore's very dead bodyq ...hung out on Errol Flynn's couch. A very drunk Raoul Walsh paid the funeral HomE director $100 So he could steal th

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James Brown's leg... off ...was cut to provide DNA samples. When the iconic singer died, a bitter paternity battle erupted. The ongoing proceedings pr

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Thomas Paine's bones... ...were dug up and paraded around England. Paine was a staunch supporter of the U.S., alienating pretty much everyone with any

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Percy Bysshe Shelley's liver... ...got swapped back and forth by his buddies. The poet's body was cremated in a pyre, but his friends noticed that one

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Frederic Chopin's heart.. ...was stolen by Nazis. The composer had asked for his heart to be buried thousands of miles away from his body. Instead, hi

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John F Kennedy's brain... went missing after an autopsy. JFK's body was buried without his brain, which remained in a steel cylinder in a locked Secre

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Oliver Cromwell's dead body... ...was dug up, put on trial, and found guilty of regicide (killing a king). Cromwell was given a posthumous execution -

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Joseph Haydn's head... ...went missing for 145 years. Phrenologists exhumed his body to check for a bump they figured determined that he'd be a musica

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George Washington's body.. L ...was frozen for three days. The first president was terrified of being buried alive, SO his family froze his body to be

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Rasputin's penis... ...was cut off and presented to his daughter. Instead of being traumatized for life, she took the appendage to Paris and put it on